Bupleurum baldense (Turra) Small Hare’s Ear
NOMENCLATURE
Bupleurum: from Greek, from _____ ox & : side.
PREVIOUS NAMES : B. artstatum (sensu Coste).B. opacum (Cesati) Lange.
BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
TYPE: slender erect, glabrous annual. Th. STEMS: simple or divaricately branched,
solid, raised or v. narrowly winged angles. H: 10-25cm
UMBELS : 5-10mm diam. Compound, (1)2-4 unequal rays, 2-5mm < than bracts.
Peduncle > than rays. Terminal, mixed. Lateral, hermaphrodite.
LEAVES: 1-3cm, simple, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, widest above the middle, acute,
sessile, scarious sheathing base. Veins 3-5, parallel. Cotyledons: tapered at base, no petiole.
BRACTS: 4, 5-10 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, glaucous, 3-5 main veins, narrow scarious
margin. Bracteoles same, smaller 3 veined, conceals firs + fruit.
FLOWERS: yellow. Sepals absent. Styles form a stylopodium. Fl. 6-7.
FRUIT: 1.5 mm. elliptical-oblong, compressed laterally, often pruinose. Commisure broad.
Mericarps with slender ridges. Carpophore present. Vittae solitary. Pedicels 1mm. Styles
0.1mm, horizontal. Stigma truncate. 2n=16.
HABITAT: open, short turf on rocky ground, grey dunes, near sea.
DISTRIBUTION: native. Local, Sussex, S.Devon, Channel Is..
W. & S. Europe. England to Romania.
